Dave my critism towards your post was at least constructive. Labelling people (including myself) ‘wingers’ and ‘liberal bleeding hearts’ for having a difference of opinion hardly allows us to gain anything constructive from this thread. You may have noticed that despite my opposition, I’ve not called for Damien to remove his picture or anything else like that. I have no right to. My opinion is just that, an opinion and as someone with a difference of opinion to yourself and the great majority of people on this thread, I have tried to put my point across and if we continue with this thread we could get a good debate going but by disregarding peoples opinions because we think they are liberal or pc, doesnt allow this.
Now to break my silence on this matter, I shall state the following,
I am not a politically correct type, neither am I Liberal bleeding heart 🙂 I enjoy watching, and laughing, at Basil doing the goosestepping around the hotel as much as anyone 🙂
“”” I don’t think anyone would play the game and develop the urge to really go and bomb Berlin, or swat a foreigner!!””””””
of course not Dave. No one has suggested that I dont believe.
Moggy, it was I who posted and such I think you deserve a response to your reply to my comments. “That is not the voice of moderation”. Now whilst I realise you remain an individual, a sense of objectiveness is needed. Using Lesbians, Hindus and Disabled (the kind of references that spring up whenever people complain that Aviation isn’t getting enough from the lottery, showing that such comments are not in isolation) in such a negative sense hardly does the forum any favours, in my eyes at least. I realise of course that you were referring to a Donkey though. I am however left reeling at the thought of you in a leotard with your underpants on the outside…. Moggyratorman is a scary though. 🙂
Steve’s (Patterson) comments on what is the difference between this game being played today and recreation dogfights is an interesting thought. These demonstrations (which I never have seen unfortunately) are a useful bit of living history but they are done in the context of education. Recreating this game in a pub for charity by a few enthusiasts isn’t quite the same. This is why I said this would be better for a display in a museum. Even better than that, recreated by war re-enactors (in period uniform) at a dispersal recreation.
An example of recreations which I think do not hit the mark are the atomic bomb drop recreations from ‘Fifi’ (do they still happen?) How a small pyrotechnic explosion can convey the damage that an atomic bomb can do is beyond me. In what way does that demonstration convey the radiation that the victims suffered and the very many left dead? A question to anyone who has actually been to one of these events, how many people are stood telling their children about the wider context and how many stand there and cheer or gasp because a big ball of flames has gone up?
Computer games that feature war, as stated before, arn’t my cup of tea. But if I had children, I personally wouldn’t be a fan of letting them play on Medal of Honour etc, a game that glorifies death and recreates in detail the death (for pleasure) of people whose sacrifice I am grateful to. A much better form, IMHO, of educating younger generations would be for an enthusiastic parent to take their child to the IWM or Hendon (amongst numerous places) and explain directly to them what its all about. One point I do concede though is that games like MOH may provide stimulus for someone to get interested in second world war history.
Gosh, that was long,
Best Regards
Steve Hatton.
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